This city is the population center of Tshopo Province, which was created under its country's 2006 constitution. Prior to that, this city was the capital of the larger Orientale Province. Located just downstream of Boyoma Falls, this city is thus the limit of navigation on the river system where it is found. This city is notably depicted in two literary works: in one, it is not named but one suburb is called the Domain. In the second, it is referred to as the "station" and on arriving there, the narrator describes it from afar: "a long decaying building on the summit was half buried in the high grass... Near the house half a dozen slim posts remained in a row roughly trimmed and with their upper ends ornamented with round carved balls... Of course the forest surroun
This city is the population center of Tshopo Province, which was created under its country's 2006 constitution. Prior to that, this city was the capital of the larger Orientale Province. Located just downstream of Boyoma Falls, this city is thus the limit of navigation on the river system where it is found. This city is notably depicted in two literary works: in one, it is not named but one suburb is called the Domain. In the second, it is referred to as the "station" and on arriving there, the narrator describes it from afar: "a long decaying building on the summit was half buried in the high grass... Near the house half a dozen slim posts remained in a row roughly trimmed and with their upper ends ornamented with round carved balls... Of course the forest surrounded all that." This city was once called (*) Stanleyville and is found where the Tshopo River joins the Congo. For 15 points, name this now third-largest city in the DRC where those round carved balls turned out to be something quite different, the inspiration for the settings of both Naipaul's A Bend in the River and Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
This city is the population center of Tshopo Province, which was created under its country's 2006 constitution.
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